Fiersviridae


Fiersviridae
Fiersviridae virion and genomes of
(a) bacteriophage MS2 and
(b) bacteriophage Qβ
Virus classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Lenarviricota
Class: Leviviricetes
Order: Norzivirales
Family: Fiersviridae
Genera

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Fiersviridae is a family of positive-strand RNA viruses which infect prokaryotes.[1] Bacteria serve as the natural host.[2] They are small viruses with linear, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA genomes that encode four proteins. All phages of this family require bacterial pili to attach to and infect cells.[3] The family has 185 genera,[4] most discovered by metagenomics.[2] In 2020, the family was renamed from Leviviridae to its current name.[2][5]

  1. ^ "Viral Zone". ExPASy. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  2. ^ a b c Callanan J, Stockdale SR, Adriaenssens EM, Kuhn JH (January 2021). "Rename one class (Leviviricetes – formerly Allassoviricetes), rename one order (Norzivirales – formerly Levivirales), create one new order (Timlovirales), and expand the class to a total of six families, 420 genera and 883 species". ResearchGate. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.25363.40481.
  3. ^ Bollback JP, Huelsenbeck JP (February 2001). "Phylogeny, genome evolution, and host specificity of single-stranded RNA bacteriophage (family Leviviridae)". Journal of Molecular Evolution. 52 (2): 117–28. Bibcode:2001JMolE..52..117B. doi:10.1007/s002390010140. PMID 11231891. S2CID 2650326.
  4. ^ "Virus Taxonomy: 2020 Release". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). March 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  5. ^ "ICTV Taxonomy history: Fiersviridae". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Retrieved 16 May 2021.